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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000913142-22-000031"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BDC"
cik: "0000913142"
company_name: "BELDEN INC."
filed_at: "2022-12-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T09:21:06.885270+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Belden amends bylaws to align with Delaware law and SEC rule changes

## Summary
- Amendments update meeting notice, remote participation, and adjournment provisions under revised DGCL Section 219.
- Proxy and director nomination rules amended to comply with SEC Rule 14a-19 (universal proxy) and Rule 14a-9.
- Board also adopted other housekeeping and modernization changes to the bylaws, effective November 30, 2022.
- New provisions include 24-hour notice for special board meetings and electronic mail consent for board actions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000913142-22-000031
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BDC
- cik: 0000913142
- company_name: BELDEN INC.
- filed_at: 2022-12-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913142/000091314222000031/0000913142-22-000031-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913142/000091314222000031/bdc-20221130.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000913142-22-000031.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  BELDEN INC.: The Board adopted amendments to the bylaws to align with Delaware General Corporate Law Section 219, comply with SEC Rule 14a-9, and make other modernizing and clean-up changes (effective 2022-11-30).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-11-30
  source text: Effective November 30, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Belden Inc. (the “Company”) adopted amendments to the Company’s bylaws for the purposes of (1) aligning the bylaws with the recently amended Section 219 of the Delaware General Corporate Law; (2) ensure that the bylaws comply with new SEC Rule 14a-9; and (3) to make other general clean-up and modernization amendments deemed proper by the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913142/000091314222000031/0000913142-22-000031-index.htm

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